Interviews

Blindspotting tackles issues of race, class, gun violence, police brutality and gentrification through the story of two Oakland best friends. Not coincidentally, the film is written and performed by two best friends from Oakland: Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal.

Paul Rudd has built a career on his “regular guy” persona, and in Ant-Man he played the smallest superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now he’s back for more with Ant-Man and the Wasp.

At 77, with a career that started in the early 60s and gave him two Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actor in 1971 and 1973 for his role in Marcus Welby MD, and four other nominations in 1972, 1984, 1985 and 2004, James Brolin could be enjoying the memories of the past instead of thinking on the challenges of the future. But the father of three, including actor Josh Brolin, and husband of Cecil B.

We had the chance to speak with four time-Golden Globe nominee Jeff Daniels about his role in The Looming Tower, the Hulu miniseries based on the Lawrence Wright book of the same title. Daniels plays real-life hero John O'Neill, the head of the I-49 counter-terrorism division of the FBI, who tried to stop Osama Bin Laden before 9/11 and was fired before the attack, just to land a new job as head of security at the World Trade Center.

For our new podcast, German journalist Anke Hofmann met writer/director/producer Sam Esmail in October of 2017 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. Esmail, best known as the creator of the Golden Globe-winning TV show Mr.

For our second podcast, Italian journalist Alessandra Venezia sat down with Susan Sarandon on August 2017 at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. In this in-depth conversation, Sarandon reveals how a big family influenced her imagination, how she became an actress, what is the secret to her long career, what she feels when she is playing strong women, why she is seeking different kinds of roles and why social issues are important to her.

To celebrate our 75th anniversary, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is launching a podcast series, HFPA In Conversation.   In this in-depth conversation format our journalists will  meet with protagonists in the world of entertainment, culture and business and talk about their work and experiences in film, TV, theater, music and business, as well as their upbringings and events that shaped their life.

The title of Greta Gerwig’s debut film as a director is Lady Bird. It is also the name that her lead character, the young Christine McPherson has given herself in order to find her own identity in the midst of teenage confusion.

Glenn Close came to the 13th Zurich Film Festival to screen her latest film, The Wife and to pick up her Golden Icon Award. Directed by Swedish filmmaker Björn Runge The Wife features the two-time Golden Globe winner as the “better half” of a successful writer (played by Jonathan Pryce) who re-evaluates her marriage when her husband wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.

There is no stopping Idris Elba. The Golden Globe-winning Brit actor (and soon to be director) seems to be busier than ever before.